Re: M_PIl

2012-09-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, September 03, 2012 11:15:02 Jelle Hermsen wrote: > Using a bignum library like GMP ( http://gmplib.org/ ) might be a good > idea when precision is that important. This program doesn't use or need bignums, and GMP has neither infinity nor NaN nor trig functions. Pierre -- .i toljundi

Re: M_PIl

2012-09-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, August 31, 2012 18:33:36 Jelle Hermsen wrote: > Personally I just define pi with 4*atan(1). Is there a good reason to use > M_PI1 instead? I defined M_PIl as (4*atan(1.)) and ran the program. It gave the same result as defining M_PIl as M_PI. The reason for using M_PIl is that it's a t

M_PIl

2012-08-31 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm developing a program which represents angles internally as binary fractions (0x8000 means 360°). To convert the angle to radians, I used M_PI originally, felt I needed more accuracy, and found that Linux has M_PIl, which has a few extra digits so that it is accurate as a ten-byte float (

Starting KDE causes computer to freeze

2012-08-21 Thread Pierre Abbat
I just upgraded the kernel to v3.1.0.1391.g26dd3-DEVELOPMENT and rebooted. I then logged into KDE. I got a window saying that Nepomuk Stub had crashed, which hadn't happened before (I see a window saying that Konversation crashes, when it's been running several days). A few seconds later, while

Re: Latest pkgsrc status - as compared to last report of 11 August (+66)

2012-08-19 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday 19 August 2012 13:33:30 Justin Sherrill wrote: > We can do that - the caveats are that John is building pkgsrc-current, > so you have to be on pkgsrc-current to use them. We release DragonFly > with the current quarterly release of pkgsrc, so by default, people > are not going to pull fr

Re: Latest pkgsrc status - as compared to last report of 11 August (+66)

2012-08-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday 15 August 2012 13:35:23 John Marino wrote: > This was a full run, nothing was masked. We're over 11,700 packages for > now (96.4%). The build logs are available this time, see link below. > Most of the regressions have already been fixed by their maintainers and > Asterisk 10 should

Re: fails to mount root

2012-08-14 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday 14 August 2012 10:28:07 Antonio Huete Jimenez wrote: > Folks, > > Patch to skip redo recovery is here: > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~tuxillo/archive/patches/hammer_skipredo02.pat >ch > > I've built an i386 kernel + modules with that patch, and it can be > downloaded from here: > http:/

Re: fails to mount root

2012-08-13 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday 13 August 2012 20:46:19 Matthew Dillon wrote: > Hmm. Well, that's clearly a software bug but I'm not sure what > is causing the lock to be lost. The debugger backtrace isn't > consistent. I would love to get a kernel core out of this but > it's too early in the boot seq

Re: fails to mount root

2012-08-13 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday 13 August 2012 15:38:46 Matthew Dillon wrote: >If you have a DDB> prompt you can hit the scoll-lock button and then >cursor up. HAMMER(ROOT) recovery check seqno=7a824b53 recovery range 308735b0-30878e48 recovery nexto 30878e48 endseqno=7a824c80 recovery u

Re: fails to mount root

2012-08-13 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday 13 August 2012 12:30:05 Matthew Dillon wrote: > Well, a 2.8 CD wouldn't have worked but you now burned a more recent > CD and you are getting the panic again? The question is what is the > console output above the 'lockmgr' line ? i.e. all I see there is > part of the ba

Re: fails to mount root

2012-08-13 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday 13 August 2012 11:46:56 Max Herrgard wrote: > On 13 aug 2012, at 17.39, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > "hammer show-undo" on that filesystem succeeded. > > So did you get it to mount root? No, I only got it to show the list of undos. I don't know what I can do to

Re: fails to mount root

2012-08-13 Thread Pierre Abbat
"hammer show-undo" on that filesystem succeeded. Pierre -- I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I'm in Wales.

Re: fails to mount root

2012-08-13 Thread Pierre Abbat
Is there anything I should try before "hammer recover"? Pierre -- Jews use a lunisolar calendar; Muslims use a solely lunar calendar.

Re: fails to mount root

2012-08-12 Thread Pierre Abbat
I burned a CD and attempted to mount the faulty partition and got the same error as booting from the HDD. Then I rebooted and don't know what to do next. Pierre -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga .icu'u la ma'atman.

Re: fails to mount root

2012-08-12 Thread Pierre Abbat
I realized after typing that that partition c is the whole-disk partition and tried d. This time it said "mount unsupported fs version 5". So I have to download the latest USB or CD and boot that. I succeeded at unlocking the crypt volume, but it's version 6. Pierre -- lo ponse be lo mruli po

Re: fails to mount root

2012-08-12 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday 12 August 2012 10:51:45 Sascha Wildner wrote: > Were you using mount instead of mount_hammer? I tried mount_hammer and got the following: /dev/ad1s1c: open failed mount_hammer: mount /dev/ad1s1c on /mnt: No such file or directory The others said "Not a valid HAMMER filesystem". Pierre

Re: fails to mount root

2012-08-12 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday 12 August 2012 10:51:45 Sascha Wildner wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:38:33 +0200, Pierre Abbat > > wrote: > > I tried an old CD of DFly 2.8.2 and it said "wrong superblock" when I > > tried to > > mount it. I'll try booting a recent versio

Re: fails to mount root

2012-08-12 Thread Pierre Abbat
I tried an old CD of DFly 2.8.2 and it said "wrong superblock" when I tried to mount it. I'll try booting a recent version and see what happens. Pierre -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa

fails to mount root

2012-08-12 Thread Pierre Abbat
My UPS glitched and rebooted the computers. The DF box kernel-panicked like this: lockmgr vx_unlock vnode_terminate _sysref_put vrele vput hammer_recover_stage2 hammer_vfs_mount vfs_mount vfs_mountroot_try(c06e220a,0,c[6e21f8,c8,0) at vfs_mountroot_try+0x242 0xc03df6de vfs_mountroot(0,e68c00,e68

Re: Fwd: df64 pkgsrc 2012Q2 DragonFly 3.0/x86_64 2012-07-24 11:35

2012-08-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday 07 August 2012 17:16:28 Justin Sherrill wrote: > It was somewhere around 2500, I think, and then the filesystem filled up. > It was writing to disk faster than it was pruning, I think, because when I > got to it, the disk had plenty of room from subsequent pruning. I > restarted it but

Re: Fwd: df64 pkgsrc 2012Q2 DragonFly 3.0/x86_64 2012-07-24 11:35

2012-08-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday 07 August 2012 10:08:37 Justin Sherrill wrote: > I am in a spot with limited bandwidth, so I can't confirm this, but this > should have uploaded as pkgsrc-2012q2 on Avalon. I haven't had a i386 > build complete yet. Hasn't crashed yet, though... Looks good! How far along is the i386 b

Re: solid-state drives

2012-08-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday 03 August 2012 04:19:22 Jelle Hermsen wrote: > Thanks for all these great tips. I'm building a new workstation and I'll > probably buy an ssd and use it as root. I'm thinking about maximizing > the amount of ram and then use tmpfs for /tmp. This will (hopefully) > still leave me with enou

solid-state drives

2012-08-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
This is a spinoff of the Aleutia question, since Aleutia puts SSDs in computers. How does the periodic Hammer job handle SSDs? Does reblocking do anything different than on an HDD? If a computer has an SSD and an HDD, which should get the swap space? Pierre -- lo ponse be lo mruli po'o cu ga'e

Re: Aleutia

2012-07-31 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday 29 July 2012 15:15:54 Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > Write a email to the support department and ask for a dragonfly dmesg. If > they can't give you the information, request a linux dmesg. How would a Linux dmesg tell whether DragonFly would run on it? Pierre -- li fi'u vu'u

Aleutia

2012-07-28 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm going to move to a house with standalone solar power, so I looked for low-power computers. I found aleutia.com. Do you think those boxes will have any problem wih DragonFly? Pierre -- La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre. Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

Re: XFCE based LiveDVD/IMG

2012-07-25 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday 25 July 2012 13:54:11 Tim Darby wrote: > Unfortunately, it failed during boot on my Dell Studio 14z laptop (1440), > so I think DF just doesn't like this hardware. I did try booting without > ACPI and AHCI, but no luck. Lots of errors, but where it failed each time > was at device "x

a couple of things I dislike about BSD

2012-07-22 Thread Pierre Abbat
1. When I run bc, I frequently edit the previous line and make a change: 15/56 .26785714285714285714 a(15/56) .26171350240120506395 a(15/56)*45/a(1) 14.99507912917598589467 In Linux, I hit uparrow and edit the line. In DFBSD, I have to type the whole line again. This is, I'm sure, a license issue;

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-19 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday 19 July 2012 21:40:44 Stéphane Russell wrote: > I finally got a PC to make myself a GUI workstation with DragonFly. I > first tried Gnome, without success. There seem to be issues with GConf > and HAL, and the console is not available to GDM. So I tried XDM along > with a XFCE GUI and i

Re: failure to mount cd when installing 64-bit

2012-06-27 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday 21 June 2012 23:12:40 Pierre Abbat wrote: > I burned a CD of the latest 64-bit DragonFly and booted a 64-bit laptop > with it. It started CPUs 0 through 7 and then issued the following > messages: > > WARNING: waiting for the following device to finish configurin

Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring

2012-06-27 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday 27 June 2012 20:40:38 elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: > > Even considering that a non-profit registration is necessary? > > Because majority of people, including me, consider donating for the > specific reason of reducing personal taxes. > > I'd rather pay $100 to DragonFlyBSD than

Re: donation : money : small amount : recurring

2012-06-26 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday 26 June 2012 21:15:16 David.Crosswell wrote: > Apologies to those I have been inadvertently mailing direct! > > Agreed! > .and astute investment of those funds. > > There are probably quite a number of list members that aren't > developers, but would be happy to donate in other ways.

failure to mount cd when installing 64-bit

2012-06-21 Thread Pierre Abbat
I burned a CD of the latest 64-bit DragonFly and booted a 64-bit laptop with it. It started CPUs 0 through 7 and then issued the following messages: WARNING: waiting for the following device to finish configuring: xpt: func=8027dd67 arg=0 tryroot cd8 no disk named 'cd8' setrootbyname fai

crashed during bulk build

2012-06-16 Thread Pierre Abbat
The build got up to octave [4002/12503] and the computer crashed and dumped core. I think it's because I was trying to kill a process, of which there should be at most one because it's a cron job, of which there were eleven, and then ran pidof to see if any new ones had popped up. I will, as I s

64-bit laptop

2012-06-09 Thread Pierre Abbat
A friend gave me a laptop with a 4-core processor that looks like 8 because of hyperthreading and two 500 GB drives, but one of the drives is in storage, not in the laptop (he was experimenting with the drives before he put it away for some years). I'm thinking of installing dual-boot DragonFly

Re: bulk build

2012-06-09 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday 05 June 2012 19:47:07 Justin Sherrill wrote: > Your computer crashed during the build too, possibly from the same issue. > I don't think you are going to get any farther than I did. I'm up to 2776, and 2485 was SDL_gfx as before, so I got farther than I did, and the crash was not cause

Re: bulk build was: computer hung

2012-06-05 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, June 05, 2012 07:47:07 PM Justin Sherrill wrote: Your computer crashed during the build too, possibly from the same issue. I don't think you are going to get any farther than I did. Ah. I understood that you had a failure such as a head crash or a burned-out motherboard that made it

Re: bulk build

2012-06-05 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday 05 June 2012 16:59:53 Pierre Abbat wrote: > What is the correct way to restart a bulk build where it left off? I found this in the man page of pbulk-build: It then writes suc- cessful builds to success and failing builds to error. If either success or error exists at st

Re: bulk build was: computer hung

2012-06-05 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday 05 June 2012 16:15:15 Justin Sherrill wrote: > You're still going to end up building 12,500 packages. The -q option > just doesn't update the pkgsrc files, which makes the startup time a > bit shorter. You are going down the wrong path for what you want to > do. No I'm not. What I wan

Re: bulk build was: computer hung

2012-06-05 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday 05 June 2012 09:26:34 Justin Sherrill wrote: > If you're having problems with a couple packages not rebuilding, the > fix is not going to be building 12500 additional packages. If there's > specific packages you can't get to upgrade, looking at the errors for > those exact items will do

Re: computer hung for no obvious reason

2012-06-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday 04 June 2012 09:38:23 Pierre Abbat wrote: > [2485/12503] Successfully built SDL_gfx-2.0.23 > [2486/12503] Starting build of qt4-sqlite3-4.8.0nb2 > Read from remote host darner: Connection reset by peer > Connection to d

Re: scroll wheel doesn't work

2012-06-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday 04 June 2012 13:13:42 Edward M wrote: > On 06/04/2012 07:02 AM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > Any suggestions? > > maybe connetor is loose from the computer. try reconnecting it. The mouse works, and the scroll wheel works in Windows. Scroll wheel data are sent serially o

Re: scroll wheel doesn't work

2012-06-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday 28 May 2012 22:29:41 Pierre Abbat wrote: > It works now! I touched the wheel while looking at a website and it > scrolled. I guess recompiling X fixed it. When I rebooted, the scroll wheel stopped working. Any suggestions? Pierre -- sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze

computer hung for no obvious reason

2012-06-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
[2485/12503] Successfully built SDL_gfx-2.0.23 [2486/12503] Starting build of qt4-sqlite3-4.8.0nb2 Read from remote host darner: Connection reset by peer Connection to darner closed. I was browsing a website and I clicked on a link and the computer froze and wouldn't even respond to hitting the

Re: the partition I'm doing the bulk build on

2012-06-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday 01 June 2012 15:08:51 Sascha Wildner wrote: > What did you do to have no snapshots on /olv? > > If you turned off the nightly cleanup then it has probably accumulated > fine grained history. -bash-4.2$ hammer config /olv snapshots 0d 0d prune 1d 5m rebalance 1d 5m dedup 1d 5m reb

the partition I'm doing the bulk build on

2012-06-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
# du -s * 7 COPYRIGHT 0 IN_CHROOT 10037 bin 839 boot 1 build.sh 51972 bulklog 0 compat 0 dev 2782472 distfiles 9477etc 0 home 0 media 0 mnt 2059650 packages 0 proc 1 root 35711 sbin 3 settings.conf 0 sys 0 t

Re: scroll wheel doesn't work

2012-05-28 Thread Pierre Abbat
It works now! I touched the wheel while looking at a website and it scrolled. I guess recompiling X fixed it. Pierre -- The Black Garden on the Mountain is not on the Black Mountain.

Re: computer got hung while doing bulk build

2012-05-25 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday 24 May 2012 14:58:32 Justin Sherrill wrote: > If you're using my simplepbulk script, run clean.sh again without the > -a qualifier, and it'll rescan and restart with only unbuilt > packages. > > Also, this will possibly happen again. I've had trouble getting > builds to finish due to

computer got hung while doing bulk build

2012-05-24 Thread Pierre Abbat
I brought up Firefox (I had been doing it on the laptop, but I took it out last night and will take it out tonight) and Gimp on darner. Also hammer has been running over 13 hours, which is highly unusual; usually it takes 20 or 40 minutes. I have over 70 GB on the disk that holds the bulk build.

Re: network routing malfunction

2012-05-23 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday 23 May 2012 10:08:48 Nuno Antunes wrote: > Are you saying that ping was working even if you didn't see the > packets going through chausie? > > Which route is darner using to reach sco? Did it change before and > after the traceroute? The default route is through linksys, the route to

Re: binary packages for 2012Q1

2012-05-23 Thread Pierre Abbat
Just passed 10%, though the big ones qt4 and kdelibs4 are already built. Pierre -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa

network routing malfunction

2012-05-23 Thread Pierre Abbat
I have a VPN; sometimes it doesn't work properly. chausie is the Linux box, which runs the VPN; it has eth0 and ppp0. darner is the DragonFly box; it has em0. linksys is a router; chausie's eth0 and darner's em0 are connected to the LAN side. sco is behind NAT on the other end of the VPN. I wo

Re: binary packages for 2012Q1

2012-05-19 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday 18 May 2012 14:14:45 Pierre Abbat wrote: > Packages for i386 are building. It's about 4% done, by number of packages, > though qt4 and maybe some packages that depend on it will take a day or > more. It's currently at 6% by number of packages, but it spent all the ti

Re: DragonFly pkgsrc policy for packages without freely or generally available sources

2012-05-19 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday 19 May 2012 12:00:31 John Marino wrote: > On 5/19/2012 15:08, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > > Just for reference, can you point of some/all of these packages? > > > > Thanks! > > -- vs; > > http://ops101.org/4k/ > > Hi Venkatesh, > > The following eight packages were masked: > > net/skype

Re: binary packages for 2012Q1

2012-05-18 Thread Pierre Abbat
Packages for i386 are building. It's about 4% done, by number of packages, though qt4 and maybe some packages that depend on it will take a day or more. Pierre -- li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci

Re: pkgsrc2012Q1-firefox build fails(finished)

2012-05-11 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday 06 May 2012 00:02:25 Edward wrote: > Thanks everyone for the support > >Exhausted after 15 hrs of compiling, pkg_delete and > pkg_rolling-replace, finally finished. >last message reads: "no more packages to replace; done" Hope my apps > will run and everything is sync. 8-) Only

Re: binary packages for 2012Q1

2012-05-08 Thread Pierre Abbat
# pkg_rolling-replace -u -D MAKE_JOBS=3 -x orc -x coreutils -x py27-twisted ... changing mode of /usr/obj/pkgsrc/net/py- twisted/work/.destdir/usr/pkg/bin/twistd to 755 changing mode of /usr/obj/pkgsrc/net/py- twisted/work/.destdir/usr/pkg/bin/ckeygen to 755 => Automatic manual page handling ===>

Re: binary packages for 2012Q1

2012-05-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, May 07, 2012 08:56:29 Pierre Abbat wrote: > orc is required by gst-plugins0.10-base, which is required by swfdec, which > isn't required by anything. I'm going to remove it and see what happens. orc turned out to be required by a bunch of KDE programs. ===> Building

Re: pkgsrc2012Q1-firefox build fails

2012-05-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, May 07, 2012 14:50:31 Matthias Rampke wrote: > I think you can, if pressed on time and this happens a lot for a particular > .so, just create the symlink, let pkg_rolling-replace run through, then > delete it. pkg_rolling-replace stopped at glib2, which is a big package, saying that li

Re: binary packages for 2012Q1

2012-05-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
I ran into another snag: gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/obj/pkgsrc/devel/orc/work/orc-0.4.16/tools' Making all in examples gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/obj/pkgsrc/devel/orc/work/orc-0.4.16/examples' ../tools/orcc --implementation -o example1orc.c ./example1orc.orc ../tools/orcc --header

Re: binary packages for 2012Q1

2012-05-06 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, May 06, 2012 21:10:24 Justin Sherrill wrote: > pkgtools/pbulk will build everything, upload it, and produce a report. > There's very little documentation, though. I think you can also > 'bmake package' for individual items and it will create packages in > /usr/pkgsrc/packages. I insta

Re: binary packages for 2012Q1

2012-05-06 Thread Pierre Abbat
I ran into a snag. I ran pkg_rolling-replace -u -D MAKE_JOBS=3 a few times. I ran into a backup program with a license it didn't like; since I'm not using it, I removed it. Then I ran into this: rr> x11/xfontsel - xfontsel-1.0.2nb1 < xfontsel-1.0.2nb2 rr> x11/xlogo - xlogo-1.0.2 < xlogo-1.0.2nb1

Re: binary packages for 2012Q1

2012-05-06 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, May 06, 2012 13:17:39 Justin Sherrill wrote: > When packages get name changes, there's no automated way to > transition. I assume what happened is postfix-current became postfix > and some of the KDE packages were renamed. Looking at the kde4 > meta-package, I don't see any of those li

Re: binary packages for 2012Q1

2012-05-06 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday, May 02, 2012 22:02:18 Justin Sherrill wrote: > My preferred method, when binary packages aren't available, is to > update /usr/pkgsrc to the appropriate release and then use > pkg_rolling-replace to upgrade the packages I use. It'll take a > little bit to build programs, but the amou

Re: binary packages for 2012Q1

2012-05-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, May 01, 2012 21:06:14 Justin Sherrill wrote: > Are you asking about doing a full bulk build of all the packages, or > adding/upgrading packages on your system? Both. I'd like to upgrade the packages on my system, but I don't want a long time when the packages installed are partly old

test

2012-05-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
I got a reply in my inbox with a copy sent to the list, but I don't have the copy sent to the list yet. Pierre -- lo ponse be lo mruli po'o cu ga'ezga roda lo ka dinko

How do I tell what process is hogging the disk?

2012-05-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
Something just rattled the disk for several minutes in a row. I don't know what it was. I have some cron jobs, but those don't take more than a few seconds, except the nightly hammer run, and I know when that is. I ended up killing the process taking up the most memory, which turned out to be a

Re: binary packages for 2012Q1

2012-05-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, May 01, 2012 15:26:04 Justin Sherrill wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > If everything goes well, maybe a week and <50G, though I haven't > tracked disk usage over the whole history of the build. > > It never goes well. Disks f

Re: binary packages for 2012Q1

2012-05-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, May 01, 2012 09:30:50 Justin Sherrill wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Justin Sherrill > > wrote: > I'd advise building from source instead of waiting for binaries at > this point for 2012Q1. How long does it take to build from source, and how much disk space does it take?

binary packages for 2012Q1

2012-04-30 Thread Pierre Abbat
Do you know when the packages for 2012Q1 will be available? Pierre -- sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera

Re: specifying "-s" flag for openntpd in rc.conf does not work

2012-04-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday, April 04, 2012 15:57:34 David Crosswell wrote: > Get a better client. > This was sent with the 'Reply List' feature in Ice-Dove. > This app. may not be available in DFly, but there must be others. > Regards, I use Kmail, which also has Reply to List. It has been available off and on

Re: Removing 2.6 packages, switching to pkgsrc-2012Q1 packages

2012-03-29 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 22:39:22 Justin Sherrill wrote: > The people this would inconvenience is anyone upgrading from 3.0.1 or > 3.0.2 to 3.0.3; your binary package target would change to a newer > release, so you would end up needing to upgrade your pkgsrc software, > if you're installing wi

Re: Anyone know how to get bitcoin to compile?

2012-03-24 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 21:33:33 Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > Hi, > > bitcoind works fine on DragonFly; you just need to modify > makefile.unix appropriately; I'll post an updated makefile in a day or > so. Basically, you need to set the pkgsrc paths correctly and modify a > few small things wrt

sound

2012-03-20 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm writing a program that generates sound samples at (theoretically) 44100 Hz and writes them to a .wav file, which I then play with xmms. How can I hear the sound as the program generates it? Can the same code work on both DFly and Linux? Pierre -- The Black Garden on the Mountain is not on

Anyone know how to get bitcoin to compile?

2012-03-20 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'd like to run bitcoin. I have a Linux laptop with a working bitcoin install, but I'd rather not keep my main wallet on my laptop, so I'd like to run bitcoin on my DFly desktop. So I gitted it from git://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git and tried to compile. I got two completely different errors

Re: something's wrong with bugs' certificate

2012-03-14 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 16:42:58 Antonio Huete Jiménez wrote: > Hi Pierre, > > Certificate for https://bugs.dragonflybsd.org was obtained in > https://www.startssl.com/. They were tested against Opera 11, Firefox 10, > Chrome and IExplore 8-9 without issues. > Also, they (StartSSL) claim they

something's wrong with bugs' certificate

2012-03-14 Thread Pierre Abbat
I get "The root certificate authority's certificate is not trusted for this purpose". Is anyone else getting this? Pierre -- La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre. Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

Re: scroll wheel doesn't work

2012-03-14 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 15:19:16 Chris Turner wrote: > This is probably overkill. Also, moused has an '-l' flag for this > > For reference - alot of the mouse documentation is somewhat 'cruft' > from the MS/DOS PC-AT era and various nonstandard serial port drivers - > for the most part things

Re: scroll wheel doesn't work

2012-03-14 Thread Pierre Abbat
Here's my latest try: I ran "man psm" and found that there are three "operation levels" which return different formats. In level 0, the mouse driver does not return scroll wheel information; in level 1, it does. There does not appear to be a command to change the operation level. I'm going to wr

gpg-agent was Re: system rebooted for no apparent reason

2012-03-10 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday, March 10, 2012 16:20:44 Chris Turner wrote: > However - if your signing setup in any way involves 3.0+ and a > gpg-agent running as root - you might want to update from source > to latest master-or-3.0 patch branch before digging since there > are known issues with gpg-agent running as

system rebooted for no apparent reason

2012-03-10 Thread Pierre Abbat
I tried to send a signed message in Kmail, which hung. I looked at top and found some curses program was trying to read the password. Instead of killing it, I tried to look at virtual console 1. I saw "F1 DF/BSD" and the computer proceeded to reboot. There was no kernel dump. How do I figure out

load average

2012-03-08 Thread Pierre Abbat
I just rebooted ('cause I recompiled the kernel the other day) and restarted KDE. When I do this on DFly and run top, the load average is about 1.5. When I do it on Linux, the load average shoots up to 11 or 20 or higher. In both OSes, the computer is slow to respond and makes lots of disk noise

What's _slaballoc?

2012-03-05 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm profiling a program so that I can optimize it and hopefully get it to run in real time. Here's the profile of the program running under Linux: Flat profile: Each sample counts as 0.01 seconds. % cumulative self self total time seconds secondscalls

Raspberry Pi

2012-03-05 Thread Pierre Abbat
How hard would it be to port DragonFly to the ARM and run it on a Raspberry Pi? Pierre -- ve ka'a ro klaji la .romas. se jmaji

Re: scroll wheel doesn't work

2012-03-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
The scroll wheel still doesn't work. How can I troubleshoot it? Pierre -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga .icu'u la ma'atman.

Re: dircolors

2012-02-25 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday, February 25, 2012 23:23:36 Justin Sherrill wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > Do you know where to get the dircolors program? I copied my bashrc from > > my > > > Linux box and it has this code: > Does dircolors do some

Where is -lm_p?

2012-02-25 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm working on a program and I want to see how much time it's spending in each function. So I edit the CMakeCache and add the -pg flag: //Flags used by the compiler during debug builds. CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG:STRING=-ggdb -pg I then run cmake and make and get this: [ 50%] Building CXX object CMa

dircolors

2012-02-25 Thread Pierre Abbat
Do you know where to get the dircolors program? I copied my bashrc from my Linux box and it has this code: # enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases if [ "$TERM" != "dumb" ]; then #eval "`dircolors -b`" alias ls='ls -G' #alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'

crash - should I upload the dump?

2012-02-20 Thread Pierre Abbat
I was copying something from a webpage to a document in Kate and the computer froze, then showed me the console saying that X could not be restarted. I killed kdm and logged in again. While all the windows were coming up, the computer turned itself off. I rebooted and found a dump numbered 12. H

Re: 3.0 release this weekend

2012-02-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, February 17, 2012 00:38:41 Samuel J. Greear wrote: > > I don't know if it [KDE] installed completely in 2.10, come to think of > > it. > > The KDE versions in pkgsrc are grossly out of date. Users should actually > have better luck compiling newer KDE version by hand from the KDE repo's

can't start a new X session

2012-02-13 Thread Pierre Abbat
I tried to start a new X session using "switch user" in KDE. I got no kdm prompt; X failed to start, and in its log file I found "(WW) xf86OpenConsole: VT_ACTIVATE failed". I then logged on to a console and tried "startx". That worked, but got me a bare X screen with an xterm, which isn't what I

Re: Can someone look at a kernel crash dump?

2012-02-11 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday, February 11, 2012 00:30:40 Thomas Nikolajsen wrote: > >panic: assertion "m->wire_count > 0" failed in pmap_unwire_pte at > >/usr/src/sys/platform/pc32/i386/pmap.c:1091 > > This seems to match issue 2296 (panic: assertion "m->wire_count > 0" > failed). > > What was you doing on your c

Re: Can someone look at a kernel crash dump?

2012-02-10 Thread Pierre Abbat
Here are the backtraces (?): Unread portion of the kernel message buffer: panic: assertion "m->wire_count > 0" failed in pmap_unwire_pte at /usr/src/sys/platform/pc32/i386/pmap.c:1091 cpuid = 1 Trace beginning at frame 0xd356bab0 panic(,1,c067fe44,d356bae4,cc997a60) at panic+0x19e 0xc0383

Forcing crash dump doesn't work

2012-02-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
My computer rebooted itself again. (I'm pretty sure now it's a bug in hammer, from the time when it does it and the left periodic.cunsolerfu files.) I typed in the disk password, then it finished booting except for X, which failed to start. I removed the stale lockfile, killed kdm, logged into X

File corrupted on crash reboot. Can someone help diagnose?

2012-02-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
I had an email that I was writing to a few people. The computer rebooted itself. I restarted Kmail and found the message window empty. I cd'ed into the directory where it keeps autosaved copies of email being composed and found that it had been overwritten with zero bytes. Fortunately I could re

Re: Paper size

2012-02-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, February 02, 2012 15:35:58 Chris Turner wrote: > On 02/02/12 14:00, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > paperconf outputs "a4". Since both are set to A4, why do the apps insist > > on defaulting to Letter? > > Because it is the 1 true paper size :D > > j/k

Paper size

2012-02-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
I have a printer connected to chausie, my Linux box, and shared with CUPS. When I print something on chausie, it defaults to A4. When I print something on darner, it defaults to Letter, whether I'm printing from a KDE program or something else like Aurora, and I have to change it to A4. Here are

Re: Hello all

2012-02-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, February 02, 2012 08:48:19 8 Tail wrote: > Never really used a Mailing List before. Also is this the appropriate > venue to ask beginner questions about this OS and installation? Thanks. Welcome to DragonFly! You want to odon8 your computer? Pierre -- Don't buy a French car in Holla

Re: Akonadi/dbus was: repeated reboots

2012-02-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, February 02, 2012 04:08:53 Chris Turner wrote: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 12:47:57AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > Also, when Kmail started, Akonadi complained about not being able to > > register with dbus. I thus have to write this on the Linux box. How do I > >

repeated reboots

2012-02-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
My computer just rebooted three times. First it was running the nightly job, either hammer or pkg-admin (I don't know which since I wasn't running top). Then it rebooted while I was doing nothing in particular. Then it rebooted a third time and X failed to come up. I had to reboot it again to ge

Re: Gconf error

2012-01-29 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, January 29, 2012 00:49:37 c.turner wrote: > Did you ever figure this out? it seems I have run into the problem, > and alas, it is not so simple since it touches the mess of > dbus/gconf/hal/ which I have deliberately avoided learning until now :D I didn't, and I've been happily using ka

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